1. The following passage suggests an error in thinking. Decide what error it suggests and explain your answer. Psychological research reveals that human beings have a tendency “to attribute the behavior of others to personality factors and that of ourselves to situational factors.” In other words, if someone else acts offensively, we believe that is the way he or she is, whereas when we act offensively, we say we had no choice under the circumstances.
2 . Suppose you have determined that a person making a particular argument is egocentric or ethnocentric. Would that determination be sufficient cause for you to dismiss the argument? Why or why not?